If social conservative evangelical "experts" advising the State Board of Education on the next decades worth of social study curriculum for the Lone Star State have their way than students will learn that historical figures such as Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, labor leader Cesar Chavez, and women's rights advocate Anne Hutchison are "not strong enough examples," or "lack the stature" necessary for being taught in Texas public schools. From the Dallas Morning News:
Civil rights leaders César Chávez and Thurgood Marshall - whose names appear on schools, libraries, streets and parks across the U.S. - are given too much attention in Texas social studies classes, conservatives advising the state on curriculum standards say.
In other words, if these panelists appointed by extreme religious fanatics on the State Board of Education have there way we will have a public education system in Texas that indoctrinates a decades worth of single-minded, racist, sexist, and bigoted youth most likely to associate themselves with the Texas Republican Party. I guess that is one way to ensure you revive a narrow minded, one-dimensional, majority Anglo, anti-minority Grand Old Anglo Party.
The social studies requirements will remain in place for the next decade, dictating what is taught in government, history and other social studies classes in all elementary and secondary schools. The standards also will be used to write textbooks and develop state tests for students.
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